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Carlos Santana and his wife Cindy Blackman Santana play the national anthem before Game 2 of the NBA Finals against the Cleveland Cavaliers at Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday, June 3, 2018. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group)

Maybe that data will make the Warriors’ nauseating loss to the Raptors Wednesday night easier for their fans to digest?

At the least, ESPN’s numbers should make Bay Area fans thankful they don’t have to settle for meals at Coors Field in Denver, where a live mouse was found inside a bag of Cracker Jack and mouse droppings were discovered in food containers in September 2016.

Some of the worst violations showing up in the Bay Area over that period included citations for “octopus too cold” and “bourbon creme too warm.”

The 49ers have the 88th worst rating and keeping the octopus too cold was one of their three worst demerits. The Sharks’ SAP Center was rated 44th and was guilty of not keeping the bourbon creme cool enough.

Among its 76 serious violations, Levi’s was also dinged for keeping its tomatoes a bit too warm and having a cashier repeatedly handling money and food without changing gloves.

SAP Center had nine high-level violations in the past two years, which included fruit flies at a barbecue stand and an employee wearing a ponytail without a hair net. The Sharks still rated the 10th-best among NHL teams.

While AT&T Park laps the Oakland Coliseum in the beauty department, the Giants stadium is actually ranked slightly below the A’s in ESPN’s health rankings. AT&T is 37th and was cited for “vermin risk” at one station and the Coliseum is 35th and displayed “signs of rodents.”

Apparently there were more “signs” of them at the Coliseum on Sunday.

A janitor on his walkie talkie in the press box just said, loud enough for all of us to hear, "There are two dead mice in the soda machine." #Coliseum

Alas, Oracle and its food dispensaries are the crown jewel of the U.S. sporting world when it comes to safe eating. The next safest sporting venues for food consumers was the Atlanta Hawks’ State Farm Arena and the Houston Texans’ NRG Stadium.